That was an excellent one.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Set in 1960, the film centers on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother.Almost entirely ignored on its original release, the film has gathered strong critical interest over time, and has a Metacritic score of 96%. Critics praise the film for its beauty and eroticism, though some do not discern a narrative arc that brings the pieces together.The lack of a strong narrative sort of had me less than interested, or at least as much as I could have been. Maybe i was in the wrong mindset. I loved the color palette, and it is nice to gt more out of Hong Kong than martial arts and action films... but this just was not for me.

This movie has high ratings in IMDb and other rating sites, so I wanted to see what it's about.It's about a playboy and how he seduced and abandoned his women, and the argument between him and his step mother. They argue because his step mother won't tell him who his real mother was, but he wants to find his real mother.The characters are obnoxious or pathetic. There's no one to sympathize with. At the end of the movie, a new character is introduced with no relevance to the rest of the movie. Editing error? Perhaps the high rating is because of the famous Hong Kong actors. I feel like I'm looking at an abstract painting. Other people are dazzled by it, but I don't see anything.

Now, don't get me wrong, a pretentious film can be good entertainment. (If not, then every film David Lean ever directed would be unwatchable.) But this film has little redeeming value other than trendy filmic aesthetics and atmosphere (which is why it merits a 3 instead of a 1).It's a self-consciously arty movie with an ensemble of dead-end characters who eventually reach their dead ends. Aside from the policeman, none of these characters will evoke in you any empathy.In fact, when it's over, you will have the sinking feeling that you have just wasted 90 minutes of your precious life.

Many people here seem to be of the opinion that this film is not very typical of Wong's work. I would like to disagree. To me, this film is a very typical Wong film. That is, if you are expecting the absolutely perfect colours, pictures and frames of 'In the Mood for Love', you will be disappointed. This film, like many of his other films, has a more rough quality to it.All you who have seen 'In the Mood' and liked it should really see this film, as I don't think you can understand 'In the Mood' without having seen this one. I was not particularly overwhelmed by 'In the Mood', but now that I have seen this film, I at least understand the later film better. So maybe also those who did not like 'In the Mood' should see this one, as it might change their perception of that film.To me Wong Kar-Wai's best film is still Chungking Express. And this film, although kind of in line with that film, does not reach up to that standard. I am glad I saw this film, as it explains other parts of Wong's work to me, but were it not for the sake of understanding that bigger picture, I don't think I would recommend it.